Kroaratos
CreatureBoss
Breeding calculator
Kroaratos
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 500
Baby: The hatched dinosaur, now a baby, needs constant attention and food placed directly in its inventory to survive, or a nearby Maewing to take care of its needs.
- Gestation
- 7h 56m 11s
- Maturation
- 82h 18m 16s
- Food at birth
- 275.4/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 78:11:21
- Total Time:
- 82:18:16
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 7h 56m 11s
Elapsed Time- 4h 6m 55s
- Maturation Time Left
- 78h 11m 21s
Time to Juvenile- 4h 6m 55s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 13600items
- Food to Adult
- 8874items
- Food Per Hour
- 315
Food Capacity- 250items
Baby Hand Feed For- 2h 50m 14s8.4% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 10%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (10 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 261.63 food/min
- Maturation
- 82h 18m 16s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 4h 6m 54s | 62,900 | 1,258 | 32 | 125.8 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 32h 55m 18s | 380,800 | 7,616 | 191 | 761.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 41h 9m 8s | 170,000 | 3,400 | 85 | 340 |
| Total | 78h 11m 21s | 12,274 | 308 | 1,227.4 |
Total: 12,274 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Need 6 full loads
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Need 4 full loads
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 7x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 50x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 62x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
Spoils in 10m | Trough / Maewing: 40m | Tek Trough: 16h 40m
During the Baby phase (0-10%), you must hand-feed or use a Maewing to nurse. From Juvenile (10%+), dinos can eat from a Feeding Trough on their own. Use Preserving Salt in troughs to double spoil times.
More about breeding the Kroaratos
The Kroaratos gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 7 hours and 56 minutes at default rates.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~3 days and 10 hours (1x rate), progressing at a glacially slow pace - plan for a multi-day commitment. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.
Each baby inherits stats from both parents with a chance of mutation - +2 wild levels to a random stat plus a color change. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
Raising a baby Kroaratos involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~494 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~33h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~41h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Kroaratos's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Imprint requests include cuddling, walks, and specific kibble - check the wiki for which kibble to stockpile.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Kroaratos. Budget ~494 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Kroaratos simultaneously? Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Kroaratos is a boss creature in ARK: Survival Ascended that must be fought in a dedicated arena. It falls within the Boss classification.
Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it respectable melee power. The Kroaratos has 500,000 base Health - an absolute bullet sponge. Its base Stamina of 400 gives it respectable staying power. Weight capacity starts at 500, giving it an enormous weight pool.
As a tame, the Kroaratos guards its arena fiercely - come prepared with your best creatures and gear. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. Killing a wild Kroaratos yields 5000 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.26 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.